In the news

■ David Herbsman, 22, an intern working at a courthouse in Queens, N.Y., triggered alarms during a security screening when he took a fake grenade to work as a gag gift, resulting in the building being evacuated for about two hours until the bomb squad gave the all clear, police said.

■ Rene Boucher, 60, who pleaded guilty to assaulting and injuring U.S. Sen. Rand Paul during a 2017 dispute over yard waste at their neighboring homes in Bowling Green, Ky., was sentenced to 30 days jail, fined $10,000 and ordered to have no contact with the Paul family.

■ Clark Parrott, a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant, said a 3-year-old girl who wandered away from her home near the town of Qulin was found safe after spending the night in a cornfield with her faithful Yorkshire terrier when the little dog began yapping in response to the barking of search dogs.

■ Dimitric Knight faces a child endangerment charge after police said she left her 7-year-old son in a hot car while she shoplifted makeup worth $70 from a Houston-area Walmart on a day when temperatures climbed above 90 degrees.

■ Derek Wilcock, 18, of Kansas City, Mo., injured when he fell about 30 feet during an evening hike near Jenny Lake in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, was rescued by park rangers and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Jackson the next morning.

■ Mark Driscoll, a hardware store owner in Sugar Grove, Ill., said he’s trying to find the man who lost his wedding band when he tried on a pair of snug work gloves and left the ring inside when he put the gloves back on a shelf.

■ Daryl Riedel, 48, of Big Coppitt Key, Fla., faces charges that include felony driving under the influence after sheriff’s deputies said he stepped out of his pickup, raised a can of beer and chugged it down during a traffic stop.

■ Emile Cilliers, 38, a former British army sergeant convicted of trying to kill his wife by sabotaging her parachute so he could get her insurance money to pay off his debts and start a new life with a lover, was sentenced to at least 18 years in prison.

■ Frank Gillette of Dunmore, Pa., said that when a runaway bulldozer whose driver had fallen off rammed into his home, a piece of plywood in his garage smashed through its windshield and luckily hit the reverse lever, causing the bulldozer to back out of the house and come to a stop.